The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 116
The saucepans were taken off, and he invited the head cook to taste.
Who acts: Jem, head cook · What happens: take off, invite, taste · To what, where: saucepans, head cook
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jem, head cook), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 saucepans | det |
| 2 | saucepans | saucepan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux:pass |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 taken | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 invited | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 invited | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 invited | nsubj |
| 9 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cook | det |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cook | compound |
| 12 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 invited | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 taste | mark |
| 14 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 invited | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past · passive | the saucepans | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | invite | past | Jem | the head cook | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cook=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | taste not said to happen | to-infinitive | the head cook not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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